User blog comment:Anobi/Post 1: DmC: Devil may Cry/@comment-775152-20110930031927

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the point Flia and I were trying to make was not that DmC: Devil May Cry is going to be a bad game--none of us has played it and I think we're all mature enough to reserve judgement until we have--or even that change is bad; it's that there is no way this can be the same Dante if they change something that fundamental about it.

To put it in another analogy: Imagine if another movie company got the green-green light to make another, completely cannon Star Wars movie. (Lucas will NEVER let that happen, but just say it does for the sake of arguement.) Now imagine if this other company decided that, in complete cannon, Luke Skywalker is not and was never a Jedi. It's impossible. No matter how much this company pushes the movie as cannon, it can never BE cannon because it requires the fans to change too much of their perception of the story, plus it retcons almost all of the rest of the saga into oblivion. That, I think, is the reason we're so upset by the change in Dante. I love my Dante (THE Dante.) Nothing's saying I can't fall in love with this new Dante, too, but the question of "why do this to me?" still remains. In particular, I am extra miffed that they changed it, especially on the heels of my comment here.

But all this civilized discussion is nice. It means we're good fans who feel passionate about the characters and settings that we have come to consider partly "ours," but are respectful of others' interpretations of those very same things.